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From February 1926, he lived in Paris, where he became a leading theatrical critic; he also continued teaching and giving lectures. "During this period of his life in Paris Wolkonsky became one of the most brilliant members of the Russian Emigration". He became the first director of established in
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Princess Volkonskaya profoundly influenced her son Serge, defining many of his interests, including his Orthodox religious views; among her friends was the well-known Russian philosopher, theologian and poet
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from Russian Orthodoxy. In 1899, Wolkonsky became Director of the Imperial Theaters, the post for which he is most remembered. Although he held the position only until 1902, he achieved a great deal;
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he taught acting technique in Moscow for a time, but in the spring of 1919 he contracted typhus (as a result of which a premature obituary was published), and in August he was arrested by the
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in Chicago as an official representative of the Department of Public Instruction, and an article by him about it was published later on in
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method of gestures and movements, and he began to publish articles publicizing them in Russia. These works aroused the interest of
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was his immediate assistant, and Wolkonsky entrusted him with the publication of the
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in Paris. During this time he became "a close friend and associate of the poet
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and, by her first marriage, a sister-in-law of the former Mrs. Elsie French
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Dancing in Petersburg — London, 1960, 1973; Souvenirs de la Kshessinskaya
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R.C.Beachem, "Appia, Jaques-Dalcroze and Hellerau," NTQ, v.1, N 2-3, 1985
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ballet school in London, after which he taught in the ballet company of
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Marija Trofimova, "Prince Serge M. Wolkonsky – theatrical critic of
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Impressions: sketches of American life as observed by a Russian
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in 1900. New names appeared in the theaters, such as painters
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in 1914 put an end to them, and he retired to his estate in
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Mary Trofimov, "The Last Days of Prince Serge Wolkonsky),"
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Converts to Eastern Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy
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Wolkonsky graduated from the philological faculty of
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